We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage / And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, / We Poets of the proud old lineage / Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why ... (James Elroy Flecker)
Showing posts with label South Korea;'s Natuional Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Korea;'s Natuional Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Show all posts

3.4.25

The Poet Enters the Imagination of South Korea*

 

Where the wind mets the water

is a memory of trees, a discussion

of serenity. The Otherlands

are full of moving fruit,

like coloured balls played with

by children, and a tree lying down  

on a bed of clouds. Elsewhere 

there’s a green, leafy print

of a poem in French,

in its centre an open flower 

traced in lines of light.


I am the one who will come

and tell you of all these things.


I am who reminds you, ‘When you go, 

don't forget you carry back magic.'



*Viewing online images from South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art


The first three lines of the poem appropriate titles of some of the exhibits.


NaPoWriMo Prompt: The poem is meant to answer, 'obliquely', the question of why I am a poet.